A Scottish physicist, C. T. R. Wilson invented the cloud or expansion chamber, which enabled physicists to track the paths of individual atoms and electrons. It was described by the physicist W. B. Le...
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Wilson was born in Glencorse, Scotland, on February 14, 1869. However, his family moved to Manchester in 1873 when his father died. Wilson entered Owens College in Manchester at the age of fifteen and...
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The Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) was the inventor and developer of the Wilson cloud chamber.Charles Wilson was born on Feb. 14, 1869, in Glencorse near Edinburgh. He rece...
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